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CHENNAI: The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) on Wednesday said it had put off plans to shift the Koyambedu wholesale vegetable market to five different locations after conducting COVID-19 tests on shop owners and workers there.
Since the last 10 days, around 4,000 tests have been carried out and only two cases have been detected. As a result, the plan to shift the market in the five locations including Kilambakkam has been put off, official sources said.
When pointing to reports appearing in a section of media that there is a proposal to turn the site for the Kilambakkam bus terminus into a vegetable market, CMDA member secretary Shunchonngam Jatak Chiru told
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CHENNAI: The rapid rise in COVID-19 cases across the state has worried government employees who fear they could contract the virus during work. Already, many top government officials have tested positive but they have continued with their work.
With the Chennai Corporation warning of a massive spurt in cases next month, many employees have urged their department heads to conduct RT-PCR tests for them.
It is learnt that some departments like Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority have yielded to the request and tested a total of 164 employees for COVID-19. This also comes after some employees tested positive a few days ago.
Discussions on with government officials to implement permanent measures
As a precautionary measure to control the spread of COVID-19 and to avoid crowding, the Koyambedu Market Management Committee has introduced a system wherein about 50% of the semi-wholesale and retail shops will be allowed to function on a rotational basis.
Half the 1,800 vegetable and fruit retail outlets in the market have been allowed to operate on alternate days on an odd-even basis as per their shop number. Officials of the management committee said this was being implemented as a temporary solution to reduce the impact of the new COVID-19 restrictions on traders and also to prevent crowding. However, discussions are on to implement permanent measures.
Amid coronavirus surge, Koyambedu retail traders up in arms over clamp
Traders in 1800 Koyambedu retail and semi-wholesale shops, which opened after a gap of seven months were staring at an uncertainty after the state government ordered the closure of retail shops.
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Traders staged a protest in front of the Koyambedu Market Management Committee office. (Photo | R Satish Babu, EPS)
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CHENNAI: After a day-long protest by retail traders from Koyambedu wholesale market, a solution is likely to be worked out with a section of shops opening one day and the remaining on the next.
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CHENNAI: An integrated township project is being proposed by a consultant appointed by the state government in the 20 to 30 acres of land near Vandalur to Mudichur stretch along the Outer Ring Road as officials are now focussing on developing 50-meter wide strip of land abutting ORR on the eastern side along the entire 62-km stretch, according to sources.
This comes after a consultant appointed to develop the 50 metres stretch has submitted a report to the government suggesting potential large-scale activities that can be developed in certain pockets along ORR by pooling the lands that are contiguous to the 50 meters wide strip factoring in the demand and advantage of quick access the stretch provides to all the National Highways and the inner city, official sources said.